Manager tells breast-feeding mom: No food or drink allowed in pool
ROUND ROCK — No food or drink is allowed in the water — and that includes a mother breast-feeding her son, a Round Rock pool manager told Cindy Herrine last week.
Herrine, 26, was swimming in the Micki Krebsbach Pool Thursday with her 20-month-old son, Blaze, when he got hungry, she said. So she took a break in the water to breast-feed Blaze, who was wearing a life vest.
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Woman told she couldn’t breast-feed while swimming at Round Rock public pool.
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Texas law allows women to breast-feed anywhere that they are authorized to be.
The complete story is at http://www.statesman.com/news/news/manager-tells-breast-feeding-mom-no-food-or-drink-/nmysC/ (subscription required).
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Reminds me of lore of my great-aunt in 1929 sitting down in the little red wagon at Woolworth downtown St Paul MN to nurse her son, a family teaching tool. Moral being: Discretion ladies, learn it, use it or be humiliating or humiliated.
The pool manager, not being a lawyer, was doing his best to have the rules followed and ought not to be placed on the same category as pedophiles as some lactation rights folks seem to love to do folks in these gottcha situations.
Just like you shouldn't throw someone out of a restaurant just for talking with their mouth full or purposefully farting, does not mean anyone should do any of those things just to annoy folks.
I am old enough and experienced enough to have an opinion on this and if anyone doesn't like my opinion then 'kiss my grits'. 